Us, Reading Ends This Friday!

Just a friendly reminder from your local librarians that the us, reading program is ending THIS Friday, August 24th. Don't forget to submit your reviews before Saturday morning! We love reading all of your awesome reviews, and we hope you've found some great books to add to your to-read lists this summer.

Our celebratory JP Licks ice cream party will be next Thursday, August 30th, from 3:00-4:00 in the Community Room at the Main Library. We'll announce our six grand prize winners and the reading challenge winner and raffle off a few surprise gift cards. And we'll eat lots and lots of delicious ice cream. Hope to see you there!

- Emily, librarian at the Main Library

I Survived: The American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

What character(s) in this book would you most and least like to be friends with, and why?

I would not like to be friends with the main character, Nathaniel’s uncle, Uriah Storch. I mean, how could you be so mean to your own nephew. So mean that your nephew left you, even though it was the only place he once called home. I felt bad for Nathaniel because he almost got killed on a bloody battlefield by a british soldier during the American Revolution. So I really would not be friends with “uncle” Uriah.

--8th grade

Spacemice: The Invisible Planet by Elisabetta Dami

A weird and peculiar planet keeps appearing, then disappears continuously on the MouseStar 1’s radar. Geronimo and his crew goes to the planet to investigate, and discovers that the aliens living there have been hiding a secret. Read this book, to find out what it is that these aliens have been hiding.

--8th grade

Lost in Time by Elisabetta Dami

Would you recommend this book? If so, who would you recommend it to, and why? If not, why not?

I just started reading Geronimo’s journey through time serial, and I love it. I read the fourth book, -Lost in Time- and I would definitely recommend the book. In this book, *SPOILER ALERT* Geronimo went back in time to Egypt during Cleopatra’s time, then to Mongolia during Genghis Khan’s time, and finally to England during Queen Elizabeth I’s time to figure out the significance of Cleopatra’s mirror, since it was owned by the 3 of them at some point in history. Definitely worth reading.

--8th grade

Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol

Be Prepared is a graphic novel about the author's experience at a Russian sleepaway camp. At first, Vera is super excited to go, and she can't wait to make a bunch of new friends and do all the classic camp activities like making s'mores and singing fun songs by the campfire, but the camp turns out nothing like she expected. Her tent mates are rude to her, she struggles to make any friends, and there is absolutely NO candy allowed. Vera's stuck at camp for two weeks--how will she survive?

--8th grade

World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky

Would you recommend this book? If so, who would you recommend it to, and why? If not, why not?

Yes, I would recommend this book. I loved this book a lot. It's very informational and interesting. It explains true facts in fun ways for kids about what would happen if fish died out of this world. If you read this book, you will figure out what will happen without fish. This world would be terrible. So lets try to limit the amount of fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody should read this book!!!!!!!!!!!!



--6th grade

Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol

This book was an okay book. It's about a girl who doesn't have many friends. She goes to a camp and some crazy things happen!

--6th grade